Corn-husking implement.



-N0- 886,033. PATENTED APR.- 28, 1908,

A. G; BAUGHMAN. CORN HUSKING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24.1907.

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ALBERT O. BAUGHMAN, OF GRISWOLD, IOWA.

GORN-HUSKING IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 28, 1908.

Application filed September 24, 1907. Serial No. 394,424.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT C. BAUGH- MAN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Griswold, Cass county, State of Iowa, have invented a new an d useful CornI-lusking Implement; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention pertains to corn husking implements; and 'it consists in the implement, hereinafter described and claimed, specifically constructed with a view of being expeditiously and easily applied to the hand subsequent to the placing of a mitten there on, and of being used to advantage over the mitten.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification: Figure 1 is a pers ective view, nearly a plan view of my nove corn husking implement. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing my novel implement as properly arranged relative to a mitten and also showing by dotted lines the arrangement of the hand of the implement user in the mitten and in proper position relative to the implement.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, referring to which:

Dis a mitten which may be and preferably is of the conventional construction.

My novel corn husking implement is formed of a single piece of steel orother ma terial suitable to the purpose; and it comrises a blade C of about the proportional ength illustrated, a loop A at the heel of the blade, preferably of sufiicient size to receive the third and fourth fingers of an operators hand, and a tongue B depending from the end of the loop A remote from the heel of the blade C and separated from the blade by an intervening space designed to serve an important purpose which will now be set forth.

In using my improvements, the corn husker first places the mitten D upon his hand, and then applies the implement. In thus applying the implement, the husker compresses the material of the mitten D at a point between the third and fourth fingers of the operators hand, and then slips the implement on the end of the mitten and up toward the wrist of the operator until the tongue B assumes the position shown in Fig. 3 between the third and fourth fingers of the operators hand. hen the implement is thus positioned relative to the mitten and the hand, it will be manifest that the blade C extends across the palm of the mitten, and a portion of the mitten and the third and fourth fingers of the operators hand are confined within the loop A of the implement, with the result that the operator is enabled to use the implement to the best advantage. It will also be apparent from the foregoing that the implement may be readily removed from the hand with the mitten and may almost if not quite as readily be removed from both hand and mitten while the latter remains on the hand.

Notwithstanding the adaptability of my novel corn husking implement to be readily applied and worn over a mitten and as readily removed from the mitten, it will be gathered from the foregoing that the implement is quite as simple and inexpensive as the ordinary implements of corresponding type at present in use.

I am well aware that a corn husker comprising a body or major portion, and a clasp at one end of said body or major portion, adapted to receive a forefinger and having its end separated from said body or major portion by an intervening space, is old. I therefore make no claim to anything in common with said husker.

What I claim is:

As a new article of manufacture, the herein described corn-husking implement formed of a single piece of material of even thickness throughout, and consisting essentially of a blade, a loop at the heel of the blade, of a length to receive the third and fourth fingers of an operators hand, and a depending tongue at the end of the loop remote from the heel of the blade; the end of the said tongue being separated from the blade by an intervening space, and the said space being arranged and being of a size to receive the thicknesses of the palm portion and back portion of a mitten.

ALBERT C. BAUGHMAN. l/Vitnesses:

R. E. STEVENSON, J. O. BRYANT. 

